Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Bionic Hand That Can Feel

...[T]he hand will be attached directly to the patient’s nervous system
via electrodes clipped onto two of the arm’s main nerves, the median and
the ulnar nerves.

This should allow the man to control the hand
by his thoughts, as well as receiving sensory signals to his brain from
the hand’s sensors. It will effectively provide a fast, bidirectional
flow of information between the man’s nervous system and the prosthetic
hand.